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The U.S. Government Supplied ISIS’ Iconic Pickup Trucks
U.S. counter-terror officials have launched an investigation into how ISIS got so many of those identical Toyota pickup trucks which they use in their convoys.
They don’t have to look very far …
The Spectator reported last year:
The [Toyota] Hilux [pics] is light, fast, manoeuvrable and all but indestructible (‘bomb-proof’ might not, in this instance, be a happy usage). The weapons experts Jane’s claimed for the Hilux a similar significance to the longbows of Agincourt or the Huey choppers of Nam. A US Army Ranger said the Toyota sure ‘kicks the hell out of a Humvee’ (referring to the clumsy and over-sized High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle made by AM General).
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The fact is the Toyotas were supplied by the US government to the Al Nusra Front as ‘non-lethal aid’ then ‘acquired’ by ISIS.
Al Nusra Front is literally Al Qaeda.
Public Radio International – an American public radio outlet – also documented a specific shipment of Toyotas by the U.S. State Department in 2014:
Recently, when the US State Department resumed sending non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels, the delivery list included 43 Toyota trucks.
Hiluxes were on the Free Syrian Army’s wish list. Oubai Shahbander, a Washington-based advisor to the Syrian National Coalition, is a fan of the truck.
“Specific equipment like the Toyota Hiluxes are what we refer to as force enablers for the moderate opposition forces on the ground,” he adds. Shahbander says the US-supplied pickups will be delivering troops and supplies into battle. Some of the fleet will even become battlefield weapons.
That’s exactly what happened …
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Moderate opposition like moderate drinking
Everything should be done in moderation, including moderation.
The moderate opposition use moderately sharp knives to decapitate their victims, and prefer moderately fresh human liver.
All baby and child livers are packed on ice and shipped super fresh via A-Rab Express to Saudi Arabia.
...you mean Planned Parenthood?
moderate drinking will get you a little pregnant
Moderate drinking leads to moderate virginity.
Just a little
"I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess." Red Green
Moderate Opposition ... does that mean that they might not vote for some candidate they don't approve? In an election?
Radical moderates... might be a threat.
The "moderate terrorist" will shoot you into your head instead of beheading.
Do I need this /s?
Every war is a Bankster war.
In this case the US are funding both sides.
Just in case funding terrorists that we are fighting in other countries might not be Banksterish enough?
They needed the Toyotas so they wouldn't have to walk to Mosul for their 2,300 free HUMVEEs
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/iraqi-prime-minister-haider...
Good thing for ISIS that the Iraqis left the keys in them... you know along with the $500M in gold and stuff...
Did they get the 6 year/60,000 mile Warranty for each Truck?
Given the lame excuses to be expected from the Pentagon and State Department they should really call the truck models
ISUSus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUBm0XQbqA
good one.